The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship

 This story focuses on the adventure and life of a young boy. It follows him as he grows from a young boy into old age. I found this story to be one of the most interesting stories that we have read this year. From the start there is a very ominous tone and it just seems destined for chaos and peril. The young boy goes back to his mother after he sees the strange ship, but when he tells her what he saw she does not believe him. from this point on the story becomes very dark. as the boy is on the way home his mother sits in the new chair she bough; she then suddenly has a heart attack before he can say anything and apparently four others in the village had died in the exact same chair.

    I found it very intriguing how persistent the main character was. After the villagers and even his own mom did not believe him, he did not give up. He still wanted to prove to them that the ship was real and he was not lying nor was he crazy. He says on his way back, "Now they’re going to see who I am, he said to himself in his strong new man’s voice, many years after he had first seen the huge ocean liner without lights and without any sound which passed by the village". He was even beaten by the villagers because they thought he was spouting craziness. He brought the ship back and I found the imagery of the return to be quite interesting. The ship was immense, maybe it was an exaggeration, but maybe it was part of the magical theme that is prominent throughout the story.